Your check-outs will automatically renew! After January 1st checkouts eligible* for renewal will renew automatically 2 days before the item is due.
*Items will not renew if:
Look for a “Due Date Reminder” email that will tell you if your items renewed, or check your account online or with our mobile app.
TAG (Teen Activities Group) meets most Wednesdays at 1:30 pm during the school year and is open to everyone in grades 6 through 12. We enjoy snacks and all different kinds of activities – crafts, games, movies, experiments, and more! There is no sign-up – just drop in!
1/8 – Duct Tape Crafts – Get creative and make duct tape wallets, jewelry, and more.
1/15 – Hexbug Mazes – Build mazes and try to get a hexbug to solve it!
1/22 – Movie: The Mighty Ducks – A self-centered lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a ragtag youth hockey team. (PG)
1/29 – Marshmallow Painting – Use food-safe markers to decorate marshmallows into characters and creatures of all sorts.
We are now offering TWO different teen book clubs! One is for homeschool kids ages 12 and up, and the other is for any teens! Both book clubs meet in the Reference Room, right around the corner from the Teen Area.
Friday, January 10, 10:30-11:30 am
We’ll be reading Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking by Erin Dionne.
Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them–that is, until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger. Suddenly Moxie is involved in Boston’s biggest unsolved mystery: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist. Moxie has two weeks to find the art, otherwise she and the people she loves will be in big-time danger.
Thursday, January 23, 4-5 pm
We’ll be reading Darius the Great is not Okay by Adib Khorram. Copies are available to check out at the Circulation Desk. Please also bring ideas of what kinds of books you would like to read in the future so we can plan more great meetings!
After learning that her Iranian father is ailing, high school sophomore Darius’s mother decides to take the family to visit her father and relatives in Iran. Suffering from chronic depression and bullied at school in America, Darius isn’t sure how he’ll fare in a country he’s never seen. It doesn’t take him long to adjust as people welcome him with open arms, however, especially after he meets Sohrab, his grandparents’ teenaged neighbor, who invites him to play soccer and quickly becomes Darius’s first real friend ever.
Winter Reading is just a week away, beginning January 1st. Everyone is invited to help Bedford reach its community goal of 5,000+ minutes during the month of January. All kinds of reading count, whether you prefer to read on paper, on a mobile device, or with audiobooks!
Pre-register at bedfordlibrary.beanstack.org, or download the Beanstack Tracker app to get ready for the big event. We can’t wait to get started!
Add a little light to the dark winter days! Join Winter Reading 2020, hosted by Beanstack, Penguin Random House, and the library.
Bedford has a community goal to read at least 5,000 minutes between January 1st and January 31st, 2020. Challenge yourself to read 720 minutes during the month to help that number rise higher and higher!
Readers of all ages, from 0 to 100+, are eligible to sign up for Winter Reading and add their literary light to the total at bedfordlibrary.beanstack.org. If you used Beanstack for Summer Reading or 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, just log into your account to pre-register today. If Beanstack is new to you, it’s quick and easy to sign up.
Prefer tracking on the go? Download the Beanstack app to log your reading with a few taps.
It’s the start of school vacation! If your plans include staying here in Bedford, join the fun at the library on Monday (12/23) for an afternoon of squeaky-clean soap-making for kids from ages 8 to 12.
Click here to sign up and to see more information!
The Library will be closed on Wednesday, December 18th from 9 am to 1 pm for staff training. Library hours will be from 1pm to 9pm.
A new guide: out-of-copyright histories (and descriptions) of Bedford.
Every title (and cover image) links to a complete scan of its book!
Wee Read, storytime for ages 0-3 years, has been cancelled for Tuesday, December 3rd. The snowy weather can undo even the best plans!
Hopefully the weather will cooperate for the final session of Wee Read next week, 12/10. Please join the fun!
Saturday, December 7: 1 – 4 pm
Sunday, December 8: 1 – 4 pm
Choose from fiction and non-fiction books in great condition across all genres. The sale also includes many holiday themed books. These make great gifts at especially great prices. Prices range from $.50 to $2.00 unless otherwise marked. All proceeds go to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library to support children, teen and adult programming as well as acquisitions for the Library. We hope to see you there.
No scanners are permitted during the Holiday Book Sale.